Seven collective learnings from 2 days of tech justice work, care and connection.

Weaving Liberation works across Europe (including the UK) to support digital justice organising. Here’s what they do and how to connect.

We received more applications than we could fund. This is a reflective look at what we learned from saying yes, saying no, and trying to...

Many organisations are investing in tools before investing in justice for the communities they serve. Here are some actions organisations can take in solidarity with...

How we’re deciding who will look after Catalyst’s tech‑justice assets after March 2026, and what we’re learning about endings, coalitions and care.

Catalyst’s legacy belongs to the network. You can help sustain and grow it. ⏲️ Submission deadline: Tues 18 November, 5pm 📝 Submissions: Expression of interest...

Catalyst is seeking 10 individuals and organisations wanting to explore, develop or sustain work that puts tech justice into practice. 

What ends, what persists, how to help steward the legacy.

As Sheeza Shah steps down as a Catalyst co-director, we asked her to share honest reflections on her journey, the meaning of tech justice, and...

2024/25 was a turning point for Catalyst. Becoming an independent Community Interest Company let us put justice at the heart of our work. Our achievements...

Project members reflect on their time on Catalyst's Tech Justice Road Trip. They share some of their insights and gains from the project. They also...

Project members look back on their past 2 weeks. They share their progress and how their work has impacted others. They also share how belonging...

AI can increase injustice, or drive liberation. Our latest Funders' Forum brought together not-for-profits and funders to explore who AI is harming. They also considered...

Project members reflect on their past 2 weeks. They share thoughts and opinions on AI, and how to help non-profits focus on tech justice. These...

Project members look back on their work so far. They tell us what’s been on their to-watch and to-read lists. And we find out what's...

Project members share their takeaways from the project’s storytelling workshop and describe their Ustopias. They also share some favourite examples of tech justice.

What if workplace financial support for mental and emotional health was simple, accessible and stigma-free? What happens when we trust employees to decide what’s best...

We ask project members to describe what tech justice is for them and how they imagine decolonising their evaluation work. They also tell us what's...

A new era is coming. Soon Catalyst will no longer be an organisation funding a network. Instead we'll be a 'lean organisation, supporting the tech...

Ever wondered what its like to be part of a sociocracy-inspired, multi-partner tech justice project working on feminist AI, participatory grant making and radical co-design?...

Working with communities to understand their experience of tech injustice. Reimagining ways that tech can liberate people. Supporting a movement.

New skills and experience arrive to freshen up the team. But who are they? And why did they choose to join Catalyst?

We asked the Catalyst community “How do you think AI will (or is) contribute to injustice and inequity in the world?”.

We asked some of the Catalyst community the question “How do you think AI can (or is helping) create a fairer, more just world?”

The 2024 Charity Digital Skills Report reveals systemic injustices in digital work, highlighting that small, marginalised charities face significant digital inequalities and need more support. 

Find out why Passion4Social and Catalyst are leaving X, opting to use LinkedIn for community engagement and considering using new platforms to reach our audiences...

This article describes the partnership between Catalyst and Passion4Social. It is not a typical client-partner relationship. It goes far beyond that!

CAST incubated Catalyst for five years, now it's independent. Collaborative review led to Catalyst becoming a Community Interest Company (CIC), with a new vision and...

Jo Morfee talks about what the team have been learning and feeling as Catalyst becomes a CiC and adopts a new vision.

Following a successful five-year incubation period by CAST, Catalyst is now transitioning to become an independent organisation.

Dr. Ruha Benjamin advocates for 'Ustopia', challenging tech's harmful impacts, and urging community empowerment. Catalyst's recent research report explores Tech Justice in the UK, emphasizing...

Are you longing for your winter break and counting down the hours until it begins?

Some insights from Web3 Futures programme, and the next steps to help nonprofits not to be left behind by developments in how the internet is...

Steering Group members Jo Morfee and Kate Swade co-authored this piece on where we’re at collectively with the strategic review, and what comes next.

Catalyst highlights from the last six months using the roots, fruits and trunk model to frame our learning and impact. Written by Catalyst's Producer team.

In this article, you will understand what Web3 is and what it can do for the charity sector, covering technologies, funding and resources, power shift,...

Catalyst has 23 initiatives, run by 12 network members. Together we’re trying to shift power away from the centre and govern it collectively through ‘sociocratic’...

Catalyst Producer Siana Bangura summarises April's Inclusive Tech meetup, and reflects on the importance of moving from passive 'allyship' to active comradeship.

Our services are always growing. Here’s an up-to-date and easy reference guide to what they are, organised according to your needs. There might be something...

Catalyst is working on a new strategy and an 18 month review. Apart from that it's business as usual. Only there is no such thing...

Reflections on our recent Funders' Forum

Introducing our two new Catalyst Producers.

This is a follow-up piece to 'Recruiting a dedicated Producer team for Catalyst: How we did it', which outlines the open and inclusive approach we...

In September, we launched a recruitment process to find two new people to join the Producer team at the heart of Catalyst. These roles will...

Six key learnings from a year spent delivering Catalyst and The National Lottery Community Fund COVID-19 Digital Response fund programmes.

An update on Catalyst's next-phase planning and launch of our recruitment for two core team members.

Catalyst’s evaluators share their insights, surprises and ideas.

Network, funder, service provider? We take a look at what people say Catalyst was, is and could become…

At Catalyst we try things and they don't always work out. But when they do work sometimes they really work.

An update on our review, renew and transition phase.

Learning is the neurotransmitter running through Catalyst’s central nervous system. It drives and directs our decisions and evolutionary purpose. How might we help it to...

Catalyst has been helping local tech for good networks to come together and build connections with one another. We celebrate the forthcoming launch of a...

We’re building a small team to take Catalyst forward into its next phase - here are some of our ‘thoughts in progress’...

Catalyst partner CAST brought together a group of tech for good community organisers to explore how to make their communities more effective, adaptive, responsive and...

Bertie Bosredon has spent 20 years working with charities to improve their digital offerings. He looks back over what's changed in that time - and...

Tess Cooper of Collaborative Future looks at how to hire a diverse range of people to work in your organisation.

In the first of a series of blogs from the Data Collective, a new organisation to support data experts working in civil society, Giselle Cory...

This week Catalyst welcomes a new type of partner into its embrace. A warm embrace, full of questions.

Catalyst exists to grow the ecosystem of support around charities' digital capabilities. We look at what this means in practice.

A look at how place-based communities are supporting charity digital leads, and what more can be done to help this happen.

Catalyst was set up a year ago to help charities get better at digital. We’re working hard to make people more aware of the work...

Report author Zoe Amar outlines her key findings, and shares actions we can all take as a result. 

Understand the system; innovate in small but radical steps; be diverse and flexible; co-create; engage and support change agents, facilitate social and institutional learning. Transferable...

We’re drawing on all the most impactful templates as we work out how The Catalyst will operate, from Collective Impact to Creative Coalitions, Systems and...

“We have a duty to rise up together. We need a 20 year change programme, orientating around purpose.”— Rachel Coldicutt

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